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by F3nd0 7d ago
Yes, that’s exactly my point. Law usually draws a (somewhat arbitrary) line between child and adult, but what really happens is that people mature gradually, so while the practical difference between a 10-year-old and a 30-year-old is great
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by F3nd0 8d ago
The very fact they are giving her an ultimatum/deadline holds that implication. At the very least, it would be likely to further the backlash and upset even more people (who oppose this use of AI). Whether they had anything else in min
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by F3nd0 8d ago
Unless you mean to imply that any sexual acts between a young person and a remarkably older one ought to begin with the former showing their ID to prove they are in fact of age, the fact that she was legally ‘a child’ is irrelevant to the m
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Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool(fortune.com)
3 points by F3nd0 8d ago|0 comments
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by F3nd0 8d ago
It does seem entirely possible (not sure about ‘most plausible’) she would have presented herself as entirely willing. I see no fundamental problem with that statement. (Note that there’s a huge difference between ‘presented herself as enti
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by F3nd0 9d ago
In this instance, Stallman was arguing semantics. His long-term criticism [1] is that ‘sexual assault’ is being used to cover a wide range of wrongful actions, where a more nuanced terminology to distinguish between them would be more appro
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by F3nd0 9d ago
The topic seems to be warnings and predictions coming true even if they seem far-fetched at first. The linked article doesn’t talk about any warnings or predictions. It only recounts (in a way) how RMS, while discussing the topic of Epstein
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by F3nd0 9d ago
Being wrong, being malicious, being harmful, and being unpleasant are all mostly separate, but get mixed up occasionally.
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by F3nd0 9d ago
How is the link relevant to the topic at hand?
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by F3nd0 9d ago
I did make a distinction between ‘the basic idea’ and the rest. That implies temporarily focusing on some parts more than the others, yes.
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by F3nd0 9d ago
I think it’s pretty evident that letting ‘other artists’ (or ‘the community’) know implies hurting the business (since they are likely to disappreciate the use of AI, the way many other people have).
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by F3nd0 10d ago
I wrote my comment with the assumption that the ‘basic idea’ was intentionally making reputation worse on account of poor behaviour, and communicating that to the business owner. Of course, if you imagine the basic idea to be the extortive
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by F3nd0 10d ago
Well, the basic idea of it is not so bad. A business generally wants to keep their customers happy and care for their reputation, so telling a business when we’re unhappy and influencing their reputation is the feedback mechanism we have at
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by F3nd0 10d ago
I think it’s relevant in that they lack the personal experience, and so can’t comment on the given points from experience, as they might be expected to.
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by F3nd0 10d ago
Saying you’ll do something that’ll harm someone (or, more precisely in this instance, their business) can reasonably be called a threat (in the broad sense of the word), though not necessarily the unfair kind of threat most people imagine w
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by F3nd0 10d ago
It’s more about the way it was phrased and presented. Just sharing publicly available facts with your community (or anyone really) is not a problem in itself, but the message does rub me the wrong way. The message’s author is trying to pres
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by F3nd0 10d ago
True. I can’t speak from experience, but this seems like it might often fall within the scope of normal job duties, though.
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by F3nd0 12d ago
Isn’t HALIC proprietary? JPEG XL is an open format with a libre reference implementation, usually compresses better than WebP/PNG, and supposedly has plenty of room for improvement still (in said implementation). Add to that its versat
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by F3nd0 12d ago
Thank you for an interesting article. You’ve helped AV1 come a long way! In the ‘Lossy Compression Efficiency’ section, you compare the codecs using various metrics, but I don’t think you say anywhere what quality the images were encoded fo
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by F3nd0 12d ago
jxl-rs is a relatively new implementation, not yet optimised for speed. It’s hard to say how much faster it’ll get, but I assume it would at least get near libjxl’s level.
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by F3nd0 12d ago
Not at lossless, though.
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by F3nd0 12d ago
jxl-rs will presumably get much faster in time. The work on it started much later than work on libjxl (because it took years for anyone to say they had vested interest in it), and if my understanding is correct, it hasn’t been production-re
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by F3nd0 12d ago
The stated reason for Chrome was not ‘we need a memory-safe implementation’. It was ‘there is not enough interest’ and ‘there is not enough improvement over AVIF’. At the time, there was interest and there was improvement over AVIF (which G
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by F3nd0 12d ago
Well, anything that supports JPEG XL will support all of them, so you can just re-use the files an the web as-are.
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JPEG-XL as default in AppStream, and better media processing(blog.tenstral.net)
1 points by F3nd0 12d ago|0 comments
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by F3nd0 12d ago
It may not be as widely used as lossy, but it does have valid uses that lossy just can’t substitute and the web needs to accomodate for. And the space savings offered by JPEG XL seem pretty great in that regard. ‘The average Web consumer’ m
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by F3nd0 12d ago
Wasn’t WebP pushed pretty hard by Google for several years, until the (ever shrinking) rest of the ecosystem sort of caved in? My impression was that there wasn’t much interest until it became more or less inevitable because of that.
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by F3nd0 12d ago
> It is getting its try, actively, in libjxl. That’s the thing, though: libjxl development hasn’t seemed all that active in recent years. The community contributors you mention seem quite far from driving the development, and some of the
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by F3nd0 12d ago
Which sounds very useful if your connection is slow enough to make use of progressive image decoding. (Often enough the case for me.)
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by F3nd0 12d ago
Can a similar technique be employed in JPEG XL, or does the format not allow for it in any way?

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